Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 61 68
Rank change year-on-year -42 +7 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,620 1,934 3,620
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 4.34% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 4.69% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,181 971 2,704
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +14.62% -14.23%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +15.70% -10.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,964 41,274 88,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.59% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46,731 22,044 62,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -39 1,473 £75,000 +0.17% 638
UK excluding London -82 786 £65,000 -7.14% 402
London -7 712 £85,000 +0.59% 300
Work from Home -31 712 £67,500 -3.57% 333
North of England -49 329 £69,310 -4.40% 136
South East -31 204 £67,500 -3.57% 105
North West -49 178 £75,000 +3.45% 91
Midlands -64 83 £67,500 - 36
Yorkshire -33 82 £65,000 -11.79% 23
South West -78 73 £52,500 -23.39% 62
North East +12 69 £65,000 -6.50% 23
West Midlands -50 59 £77,500 +10.71% 18
East of England -23 43 £60,100 +0.17% 15
Scotland -72 28 £60,000 -23.87% 17
Wales -36 23 £67,500 +29.81% 16
East Midlands -61 23 £65,000 +4.00% 18
Northern Ireland -29 7 £62,500 +25.00% 18
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 1

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.05%) Confluence
3 13 (0.80%) Apache
3 13 (0.80%) CMS
4 12 (0.74%) IIS
5 10 (0.62%) JBoss
6 8 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.37%) WordPress
9 5 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.31%) Drupal
10 4 (0.25%) Camunda
10 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.19%) nginx
12 2 (0.12%) Liferay
12 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.37%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 859 (53.02%) AWS
2 688 (42.47%) Azure
3 300 (18.52%) GCP
4 244 (15.06%) Serverless
5 162 (10.00%) SaaS
6 158 (9.75%) GitHub
7 137 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
8 119 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (6.23%) Amazon S3
10 93 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
11 83 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 69 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
12 69 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
13 65 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
14 63 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
15 56 (3.46%) Azure AKS
16 55 (3.40%) GitHub Copilot
17 49 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
18 46 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 43 (2.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.83%) Broadband
2 23 (1.42%) Network Security
3 11 (0.68%) DNS
3 11 (0.68%) MQTT
4 10 (0.62%) DMARC
5 9 (0.56%) Internet
6 8 (0.49%) VPN
7 7 (0.43%) DHCP
7 7 (0.43%) Firewall
7 7 (0.43%) HTTP
8 6 (0.37%) AMQP
8 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.31%) LTE
9 5 (0.31%) RFID
10 3 (0.19%) Modbus
11 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.12%) SNMP
11 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (13.95%) MongoDB
2 198 (12.22%) NoSQL
3 179 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
4 100 (6.17%) Elasticsearch
5 98 (6.05%) MySQL
6 92 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 81 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 76 (4.69%) SQL Server
9 47 (2.90%) Redis
10 46 (2.84%) DynamoDB
11 44 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.79%) Big Data
13 26 (1.60%) BigQuery
14 24 (1.48%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.80%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.43%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.43%) Db2
17 6 (0.37%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.37%) Metadata
17 6 (0.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 192 (11.85%) Git
2 156 (9.63%) GitLab
3 127 (7.84%) Jenkins
4 54 (3.33%) TeamCity
5 48 (2.96%) JUnit
6 44 (2.72%) JIRA
7 38 (2.35%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.98%) Mockito
9 30 (1.85%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.79%) CircleCI
10 29 (1.79%) Claude Code
11 28 (1.73%) Maven
12 18 (1.11%) Selenium
13 17 (1.05%) Vite
14 16 (0.99%) JMeter
15 15 (0.93%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.80%) Postman
17 11 (0.68%) REST Assured
18 9 (0.56%) Bitbucket
18 9 (0.56%) Spock
General
1 438 (27.04%) Finance
2 296 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 161 (9.94%) Banking
4 145 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (5.68%) Retail
7 86 (5.31%) Law
8 81 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 52 (3.21%) Financial Institution
10 45 (2.78%) Back Office
11 29 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.48%) Marketing
14 18 (1.11%) Advertising
15 17 (1.05%) Billing
16 16 (0.99%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.80%) Legal
18 11 (0.68%) Games
19 10 (0.62%) Investment Banking
19 10 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 565 (34.88%) Developer
2 399 (24.63%) Senior
3 330 (20.37%) Software Engineer
4 230 (14.20%) Architect
5 225 (13.89%) Lead
6 143 (8.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 134 (8.27%) .NET Developer
8 133 (8.21%) Java Developer
9 122 (7.53%) Java Engineer
10 119 (7.35%) Senior Developer
11 115 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 87 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
13 78 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 71 (4.38%) Principal Engineer
15 64 (3.95%) Software Developer
16 59 (3.64%) Lead Developer
17 55 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
18 52 (3.21%) Senior Java Engineer
19 49 (3.02%) Java Software Engineer
20 44 (2.72%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (23.83%) .NET
2 358 (22.10%) React
3 316 (19.51%) Node.js
4 274 (16.91%) Spring
5 259 (15.99%) RESTful
6 250 (15.43%) Spring Boot
7 218 (13.46%) REST
8 197 (12.16%) Kafka
9 157 (9.69%) AngularJS
10 147 (9.07%) .NET Core
11 146 (9.01%) ASP.NET
12 138 (8.52%) Vue
13 116 (7.16%) ASP.NET Core
14 83 (5.12%) HTML
15 81 (5.00%) gRPC
16 75 (4.63%) .NET Framework
16 75 (4.63%) CSS
17 70 (4.32%) ASP.NET Web API
18 65 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
19 63 (3.89%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 482 (29.75%) Cloud Native
2 280 (17.28%) Distributed Systems
3 112 (6.91%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
5 70 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.84%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.78%) Over-the-Top Content
9 33 (2.04%) Algorithms
10 31 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.85%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.73%) Onboarding
13 27 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.48%) AI Agents
14 24 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
15 23 (1.42%) Mobile App
16 22 (1.36%) PKI
17 21 (1.30%) e-Learning
17 21 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
18 19 (1.17%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.86%) Linux
2 39 (2.41%) Windows
3 20 (1.23%) Unix
4 7 (0.43%) CentOS
4 7 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.31%) Debian
5 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.19%) Android
7 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.062%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (50.43%) CI/CD
2 690 (42.59%) Agile
3 591 (36.48%) DevOps
4 588 (36.30%) Software Engineering
5 437 (26.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 392 (24.20%) Containerisation
7 367 (22.65%) Mentoring
8 340 (20.99%) Test Automation
9 323 (19.94%) Event-Driven
10 317 (19.57%) AI
11 307 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 304 (18.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 282 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
14 211 (13.02%) Scrum
15 200 (12.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 198 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
17 189 (11.67%) TDD
18 188 (11.60%) Coaching
19 184 (11.36%) Clean Code
20 174 (10.74%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 537 (33.15%) Java
2 406 (25.06%) Python
3 388 (23.95%) SQL
4 367 (22.65%) C#
5 354 (21.85%) JavaScript
6 277 (17.10%) TypeScript
7 117 (7.22%) Go
8 50 (3.09%) Scala
9 46 (2.84%) PHP
10 42 (2.59%) C++
11 41 (2.53%) Bash
12 35 (2.16%) Ruby
13 27 (1.67%) C
14 23 (1.42%) Rust
15 22 (1.36%) PowerShell
16 20 (1.23%) PL/SQL
17 19 (1.17%) Bicep
18 16 (0.99%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.80%) Shell Script
20 11 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 189 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 160 (9.88%) Degree
3 128 (7.90%) SC Cleared
4 81 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 30 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.67%) CISSP
8 24 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.74%) CISM
13 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.49%) PhD
15 7 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.43%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.31%) GIAC
17 5 (0.31%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (7.04%) QA
2 52 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.35%) GDPR
4 35 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.48%) NIST
7 22 (1.36%) SOC 2
8 15 (0.93%) GRC
8 15 (0.93%) WCAG
9 14 (0.86%) NCSC
10 11 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.19%) SEPA
14 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.062%) Data Quality
System Software
1 462 (28.52%) Docker
2 18 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.25%) Firmware
4 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 493 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 305 (18.83%) Terraform
3 88 (5.43%) Grafana
4 87 (5.37%) Ansible
5 50 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.42%) Kibana
7 22 (1.36%) Argo
8 13 (0.80%) Cilium
8 13 (0.80%) Puppet
8 13 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.37%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.25%) Packer
10 4 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) MIIS
11 2 (0.12%) Nagios
11 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.12%) Rancher
Vendors
1 210 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 69 (4.26%) Google
3 51 (3.15%) Oracle
4 45 (2.78%) Typelevel
5 29 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 24 (1.48%) Splunk
7 21 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.11%) AppDynamics
9 13 (0.80%) IBM
9 13 (0.80%) Red Hat
10 11 (0.68%) Databricks
10 11 (0.68%) SendGrid
11 10 (0.62%) Adobe
12 9 (0.56%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.56%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.56%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.49%) Cisco
13 8 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.49%) SAP
14 7 (0.43%) HubSpot